Kristian Ramos On Fox News Talking About E-Verify

Today I was on Fox News talking about E-Verify, I have provided a couple of talking points after the video. Just wanted to put those out there on the interwebs, as Fox actually cut the second part of the conversation we were having. Needless to say things got heated at the end.

Right were they cut the video off is where I pointed out that Florida, tried to mandate E-Verify in the state legislature and it was actually Moderate GOP legislatures and Businesses in the state came together to kill that part of the bill.

Anywho... here are some of the statistics i referenced:

• Mandatory E-Verify would cost an estimated 2.7 billion dollars a year for small businesses. According to leading experts that number could actually be as high as 17.3 billion dollars for the country as a whole.

• E-Verify, actually accurately verifies 99.5% of eligible working citizens. As for actually catching undocumented workers, it only does that at 54%. Furthermore currently E-Verify is only be utilized by 4% of the current workforce. There are some very real problems taking this thing nationally, mainly it wont work.

• Furthermore, how effective can this legislation be, when in states like Arizona were it is absolutely mandatory for businesses to use E-Verify only about 1/3 of businesses actually use it. Then again those states like Florida, couldn't event get it passed, because of business and moderate Republicans reluctance to use something that is so error prone.